John Wilson Lewis

John Wilson Lewis
Born	(1930-11-06)November 6, 1930 Seattle, King County, Washington, U.S.
Died	September 4, 2017(2017-09-04) (aged 86) Stanford, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Deep Springs College University of California, Los Angeles
Scientific career
Fields	Sinology Vietnamese studies
Institutions	Cornell University Stanford University

John Wilson Lewis (November 16, 1930 – September 4, 2017) was an American political scientist. He taught at Cornell University, before joining the faculty of Stanford University, where he became the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics.

Career

A native of King County, Washington, Lewis graduated from Deep Springs College in 1949 before earning a bachelor's degree at University of California, Los Angeles. He returned to UCLA after serving in the United States Navy from 1954 to 1957. Lewis received a master's degree in 1958, and completed a Ph.D. in 1962. He specialized in China–United States relations and the Korean conflict, inspired to research those topics by relatives who worked as missionaries in China and his time in the military, respectively. He began teaching at Cornell in 1961, and left for Stanford in 1968. At Stanford, Lewis became founding director of the Center for East Asian Studies, serving until 1970 when he started the Center for International Security and Arms Control, which later became the Center for International Security and Cooperation in 1983. From 1983 to 1990, Lewis led what became the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

Personal

Lewis married his wife Jacquelyn in 1954, with whom he had three children. He lived on the Stanford University campus, where he died at the age of 86 on September 4, 2017.

Bibliography

• Lewis, John Wilson (1963). Leadership in Communist China. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. LCCN 63012090. OCLC 326156.
• Lewis, John Wilson; Kahin, George McTurnan (1967). The United States in Vietnam: An Analysis in Depth of the History of America's Involvement in Vietnam. New York: Dial Press. LCCN 66021593. OCLC 45035.
• Lewis, John Wilson; University of London. Contemporary China Institute (1970). Party Leadership and Revolutionary Power in China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521096140. LCCN 75120056. OCLC 94625.
• Lewis, John Wilson; Xue, Litai (1988). China Builds the Bomb. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804714525. LCCN 87030404. OCLC 16950375.
• Lewis, John Wilson; Xue, Litai; Goncharov, Sergeĭ Nikolaevich (1993). Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804721158. LCCN 93023971. OCLC 28222130.
• Lewis, John Wilson; Xue, Litai (1994). China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804723039. LCCN 94011688. OCLC 1038545358.
• Lewis, John Wilson; Xue, Litai (2006). Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804753913. LCCN 2006009400. OCLC 65201282.